Josh Borrow

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
42 papers, 656 citations indexed

About

Josh Borrow is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Josh Borrow has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 656 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 17 papers in Instrumentation and 8 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Josh Borrow's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (31 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (17 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (9 papers). Josh Borrow is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (31 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (17 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (9 papers). Josh Borrow collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Josh Borrow's co-authors include Matthieu Schaller, Joop Schaye, Mark Vogelsberger, R. G. Bower, Yannick M Bahé, Roi Kugel, Aaron Smith, Folkert S J Nobels, Rahul Kannan and Lars Hernquist and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and arXiv (Cornell University).

In The Last Decade

Josh Borrow

37 papers receiving 584 citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The FLAMINGO project: cosmological hydrodynamical simulations for large-scale structure and galaxy cluster surveys

2023 134 citations Joop Schaye, Roi Kugel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Josh Borrow United States	14	550	223	164	52	38	42	656
Joseph DeRose United States	16	596 1.1×	251 1.1×	143 0.9×	48 0.9×	21 0.6×	27	651
M. Vargas-Magaña United States	16	711 1.3×	218 1.0×	216 1.3×	71 1.4×	18 0.5×	26	781
César Hernández‐Aguayo Germany	17	611 1.1×	250 1.1×	195 1.2×	33 0.6×	27 0.7×	41	686
Enrico Garaldi Germany	16	703 1.3×	274 1.2×	225 1.4×	42 0.8×	18 0.5×	40	821
A. Pollo Poland	14	550 1.0×	250 1.1×	82 0.5×	34 0.7×	42 1.1×	68	613
Alexander M. Beck Germany	16	1.0k 1.9×	364 1.6×	279 1.7×	55 1.1×	47 1.2×	21	1.1k
Jenny G. Sorce France	14	659 1.2×	253 1.1×	190 1.2×	45 0.9×	10 0.3×	20	733
Taira Oogi Japan	11	481 0.9×	201 0.9×	114 0.7×	43 0.8×	11 0.3×	23	526
Marcel P. van Daalen Netherlands	12	872 1.6×	364 1.6×	299 1.8×	59 1.1×	22 0.6×	23	944
Susana Planelles Spain	18	1.1k 2.0×	452 2.0×	264 1.6×	60 1.2×	42 1.1×	33	1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Josh Borrow

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Fields of papers citing papers by Josh Borrow

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Josh Borrow

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Josh Borrow. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Josh Borrow based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Josh Borrow. Josh Borrow is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Zier, Oliver, Aaron Smith, Mark Vogelsberger, et al.. (2025). High-redshift AGN population in radiation-hydrodynamics simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 544(1). 355–371. 1 indexed citations

Zier, Oliver, Rahul Kannan, Aaron Smith, et al.. (2025). The thesan-zoom project: Population III star formation continues until the end of reionization. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 544(1). 410–429. 3 indexed citations

McClymont, William, Sandro Tacchella, Aaron Smith, et al.. (2025). The thesan-zoom project: burst, quench, repeat – unveiling the evolution of high-redshift galaxies along the star-forming main sequence. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 544(1). 513–534. 7 indexed citations

Zier, Oliver, Rahul Kannan, Aaron Smith, et al.. (2025). The thesan–zoom project: long-term imprints of external reionization on galaxy evolution. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 544(1). 391–409. 3 indexed citations

Shen, Xuejian, Rahul Kannan, Ewald Puchwein, et al.. (2025). The thesan-zoom project: star formation efficiencies in high-redshift galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 545(4).

McClymont, William, Sandro Tacchella, Aaron Smith, et al.. (2025). The thesan-zoom project: central starbursts and inside-out quenching govern galaxy sizes in the early Universe. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 544(2). 1732–1747. 3 indexed citations

Kannan, Rahul, Ewald Puchwein, Aaron Smith, et al.. (2025). Introducing the THESAN-ZOOM project: radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of high-redshift galaxies with a multi-phase interstellar medium. The Open Journal of Astrophysics. 8. 3 indexed citations

Borrow, Josh, Paul La Plante, James Aguirre, & Peter K. G. Williams. (2024). Making Research Data Flow With Python. Proceedings of the Python in Science Conferences. 236–246.

Shen, Xuejian, Mark Vogelsberger, Josh Borrow, et al.. (2024). The thesan project: galaxy sizes during the epoch of reionization. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 534(2). 1433–1458. 12 indexed citations

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Sohn, Jubee, Margaret J. Geller, Josh Borrow, & Mark Vogelsberger. (2024). The Velocity Dispersion Function for Quiescent Galaxies in Massive Clusters from IllustrisTNG. The Astrophysical Journal. 974(1). 26–26. 1 indexed citations

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Garaldi, Enrico, Rahul Kannan, Aaron Smith, et al.. (2024). The thesan project: public data release of radiation-hydrodynamic simulations matching reionization-era JWST observations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 530(4). 3765–3786. 13 indexed citations

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Sohn, Jubee, Margaret J. Geller, Josh Borrow, & Mark Vogelsberger. (2024). Velocity Dispersions of Quiescent Galaxies in IllustrisTNG. The Astrophysical Journal. 964(2). 178–178. 3 indexed citations

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Smith, Aaron, Rahul Kannan, Mark Vogelsberger, et al.. (2024). The thesan project: connecting ionized bubble sizes to their local environments during the Epoch of Reionization. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 531(3). 2943–2957. 9 indexed citations

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Wang, Yunchong, Mark Vogelsberger, Dong‐Woo Kim, et al.. (2023). X-ray scaling relations of early-type galaxies in IllustrisTNG and a new way of identifying backsplash objects. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(3). 6763–6778. 1 indexed citations

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Kugel, Roi, Joop Schaye, Matthieu Schaller, et al.. (2023). FLAMINGO: calibrating large cosmological hydrodynamical simulations with machine learning. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 526(4). 6103–6127. 49 indexed citations

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Shen, Xuejian, Josh Borrow, Mark Vogelsberger, et al.. (2023). thesan-hr: galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization in warm dark matter, fuzzy dark matter, and interacting dark matter. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(2). 2835–2857. 18 indexed citations

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Schaye, Joop, Roi Kugel, Matthieu Schaller, et al.. (2023). The FLAMINGO project: cosmological hydrodynamical simulations for large-scale structure and galaxy cluster surveys. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 526(4). 4978–5020. 134 indexed citations breakdown →

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Borrow, Josh, et al.. (2022). Dealing with density discontinuities in planetary SPH simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 512(3). 4660–4668. 2 indexed citations

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Sohn, Jubee, Margaret J. Geller, Mark Vogelsberger, & Josh Borrow. (2022). IllustrisTNG Snapshots for 10 Gyr of Dynamical Evolution of Brightest Cluster Galaxies and Their Host Clusters. The Astrophysical Journal. 938(1). 3–3. 5 indexed citations

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Borrow, Josh, et al.. (2020). swiftsimio: A Python library for reading SWIFT data. The Journal of Open Source Software. 5(52). 2430–2430. 48 indexed citations

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